Saturday 14 November 2009

Copy Songs from an iPhone/iPod to Your Computer WITHOUT iTunes

Let me talk you through one of my worst nightmares. I changed my laptop a lot for various reasons. There are times, however, where for whatever reason I re-install the OS, which happens to link in to the aforementioned nightmare… I’ve been collecting music on my iPod for years, and my iTunes library is just over 5GB in size, not counting any of my TV shows or movies. If I forget to back up my library and format my hard drive, then I’m screwed.

That was the exact situation I was in a few days ago. My iTunes library was gone, and I needed some way to get all the files off my iPhone and on to my hard drive. If you re-install iTunes and sync your iPod with an empty library, you’ll just end up with an empty iPod, and then you HAVE lost your music! Before you start panicking about your precious music collection being lost though, try a little app called SharePod! Have a look at this free wonderful little app called Sharepod.

And when I say little I mean less than 3 MB, no install necessary and completely portable. Sharepod lets you hook up to any iPod, iPhone and iPod Touch and move your content without having to download or install iTunes. A boon for anyone who uses one iPod but wants to manages music across multiple computers



SharePod can browse all the files of your iPod, backup your library, copy songs to your PC and even add songs. The best feature of this application is that it doesn’t require iTunes to be installed to work – just plug your iPod into your PC and open SharePod, and you can browse, add and remove anything!